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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1904
Page
6
A pretty maiden rises with dawn as a youth on horseback glimpses her drying dress on a tall green bush. They flee across the sea, and she forgets her gown. Look by the garden gate the purple lac tree keeps the dress hanging as she left it.
George Moscroft faces an England based plot to extort money over old love letters from Sal Jarvis. An Australian store fortune and a fiancee’s family friend become the center of a tangled confrontation. The conspirator plots to pressure Moscroft as Miss Jardine’s name is dragged into the feud.
Flo Jardine, George Moscroft, and a storekeeper confront a bundle of letters charging a past deception. Moscroft refuses a £4000 payoff to bury the secret. Flo, loyal and decisive, burns the letters, ending the affair as she and Moscroft confirm the story is closed.
Dr J M Feeney, a surgeon with the Eleventh Infantry, returns from five years in the Philippines praising its wealth. He claims Panotabontos in northern Luzon holds more gold than Alaska and notes natives carrying gold spats. He mentions vast copper and predicts a mining rush once property titles are clarified.
A professor, after rebuking noisy students, hears a donkey bray outside the window. The class falls briefly silent before quiet laughter spreads. He maintains stern composure and then warns, Do not respond, please, do not respond.
A reflective verse petitioning a forgiving father figure. The speaker recalls straying from the path despite prayers, seeking mercy and faith to endure until heaven. It conveys penitence, patience, and the hope of redemption through divine love.
Arabella hears her mother end a telephone call with the evasive line that the father is not in. Mrs Highrocks declares she is going into the ality, revealing a tense household moment and a missing parental figure in the dialogue.
In Exeter a unique municipal by-law prohibits Italian street musicians. Any Italian seen on roads leading to the city with a barrel organ is stopped and sent back from whence he came.
The Philadelphia Record recounts Kanaka canoe building with cedar bodies, carved prows, sails of matting, ceremonial rituals, and a priest leading prayers to avert disaster. In a second tale, two broke men pawn a trunk at Broad Street Station, one sits on it for seven hours as a friend returns with cash.
In Albemarine County Virginia, Daniel Scott started a spring and summer feeding tradition for wild geese at his Scotlands plantation, a custom carried on by his descendants. A distinctive garment he wore signaled the birds, and children across generations stop by the “wayside inn” for provisions. United States Senator Thomas 8. Martin is the current owner of Scotlands.
A fragment notes depictions of the Winds as poets with wings on heads and shoulders, seen in a Virgil edition housed at the Vatican, highlighting mythic imagery in art and manuscript culture.
Short note recalls two one arm golfers at Seven in Fife who played superbly. Thomas Anderson, a one arm railway staffer at St. Andrews, wins first prize in a ninety stroke competition. Also describes Arabia’s laughing plant seeds that induce bouts of dancing and singing before a deep sleep and amnesia.
A passage discusses how a small amount of oil on turbulent seas can lessen wave activity. It cites Theophylactes, a sixth century Byzantine historian, and notes a Gulf of Mexico feature named the off-spot. The muds stirred in reform are said to contribute an oily calm, creating a safe harbor in storms.
A recent arrival from Japan brings a 62 page pamphlet titled Book of Flowers. It guides Japanese women in education beyond etiquette, showing flower arranging and poetry on each page. The book features vases, low stands, curved legs, wall panels with storks, and scenes of the sacred mountain.
During a mixed foursome at North Berwick links a golf ball vanished and was recovered from a lark's nest containing four eggs. The caddie retrieved the ball after a careful search, highlighting an unusual hazard on the course.
A fragmented report notes a poache in Germany prepared for a comfortable journey. It mentions a single auto trip and a rigged setup guiding the travel.
William Richards an elderly resident of Went Hartland Maine about 85 years old rode a mowing machine while cutting a large patch of grass last week and seemed at home on the machine.
An advertisement claims Dean's Kidney Pills cured a man’s severe back pain after two years of suffering and urges readers to buy. another offer promotes Hubinger’s Red Cross Starch with free Red Cross Soap Powder. A mix of quotes from artists and a humorous Civil War era exchange by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Horace Greeley, plus a New England village anecdote about a chorus of opinions on a chanter, conclude with a voter’s quip about not wasting money on modern devices.
A Denver physician advocates Grape-Nuts as a primary food for children with stomach liver and kidney derangements. A mother recalls her four year old’s recovery after adopting a diet centered on Grape-Nuts and Postum, noting the product’s natural sweetening and pre digestion. The letter from Battle Creek Michigan emphasizes proper nutrition in early life and urges parents to choose healthful foods over sugar rich sweets.
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